Sierra Leone healthcare system 'very strained'

The healthcare system in Sierra Leone is under strain, director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool has said, after it was announced that a British national with Ebola would be repatriated. Professor Tom Solomon said:

We do have facilities in the UK for caring for people with haemorrhagic fevers.

There is a high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London which is very well set up for things like this.